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After successfully freeing Alliance POWs, 'Black Jack' Geary discovers that the Syndics plan to ambush the fleet with their powerful reserve flotilla in an attempt to annihilate it once and for all. And as Geary has the fleet jump from one star system to the next, hoping to avoid the inevitable confrontation, saboteurs contribute to the chaos.

-ABOUT THE BOOK: Forged by Conviction is a never before written, chronologically accurate account of the birth and prominent rise of the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia. Meet the colorful personalities who helped to define and mobilize this great movement for God's glory. Discover how both church planting and decentralization helped to carve what would become the foundation of one of America's most modern day struggles for biblical ...

The first scholarly consideration of the over eight hundred haiku written late in Wright's life Essays by: Shawnrece D. Campbell Lee Gurga Yoshinobu Hakutani Richard A. Iadonisi Toru Kiuchi Sanehide Kodama Thomas L. Morgan Sachi Nakachi Meta L. Schettler Jianqing Zheng The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku reveals Richard Wright's poetic vision toward the human world. Through the minimal form of haiku, Wright (1908-1960)...

The North Atlantic (NORA) region is a transnational area comprising the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, and the coastal counties of Norway. These territories are linked by shared characteristics and challenges, as well as by historical, institutional and cultural links. Improving accessibility to the region, ensuring sustainable development of its fisheries, enlarging and diversifying its economic base, and meeting the challenges of climate...

Synopsis: Is Second Corinthians, one of Paul's most personal and passionate letters, better understood as a text or a performance? Using an audience-oriented method, Timothy Milinovich examines the letter as orally performed correspondence, from the view of the authorial (i.e., intended or ideal) audience. What results is an original structural analysis of 2 Corinthians 1:1--6:2, denoting twenty chiastic units and three larger macrochiastic...

Interpreting Life depicts one Christian woman's struggle to determine her place in the home and church as the traditional roles of the 1950s gave way to the chaos created by the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Burke's lengthy journey brought her from a state of confusion to a conscious awareness of the effects of her cohort, conservative religious beliefs, and close relationships on her personal and spiritual development. From childho...

An examination of the fireworks and folderol that erupt when folklore and current events collide Newslore is folklore that comments on and hinges on knowledge of current events. These expressions come in many forms: jokes, urban legends, digitally altered photographs, mock news stories, press releases or interoffice memoranda, parodies of songs, poems, political and commercial advertisements, movie previews and posters, still or animated carto...

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The book contains some contributions of informatics aapplication in the Economical Informatics field. In today information society, the information represents the most important good. In the future, the Computational intelligence (CI) will be a successor of artificial intelligence. Computational intelligence combines elements of learning, adaptation, evolution and Fuzzy logic (rough sets) to create programs that are, in some sense, intelligent...

Organizations experience immoral behavior quite often. For example, one can think of the Madoff investment scandal and the increasing rate of frauds in companies during the last years. In order to prevent employees from behaving immoral, it is important to know what drives (im)moral behavior. This work explores the effect of emotions on moral behavior. Specifically, the emotion disgust is chosen to explore this relationship. To investigate the...

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In the age of Globalization, a variety of voices from diasporas has emerged over the last few decades, which has become the cultural border between immigrants'' country of origin and country of residence - what Homi Bhabha calls the "third space." Among these voices there are the so-called ethnic media, i.e. those media made by and/or diffused to immigration-related populations and minorities. The aim of this study is to investigate the evolut...

In Analogue to Digital Converters (ADCs) jittered sampling raises the noise floor, this leads to a decrease in its Signal to Noise ratio (SNR) and its effective number of bits (ENOB). This research studies a technique that compensate for the effects of jittered. A thorough understanding of sampling in various data converters is complied. A novel design technique based on linear approximation is proposed to counter the effects of clock jitter i...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the occurrence of confabulation in traumatic brain injury at different levels of cognitive functioning (according to the Rancho Los Amigos Levels of Cognitive Functioning) and to determine whether confabulation could be quantified. Participants were asked a series of questions in an interview format. Their responses were analyzed using a rating scale on the Sacramento Assessment of Confabulation (SA...

Bilateral force feedback teleoperation provides the operator with an enhanced realtime understanding of the remote slave environment. Closed loop bilateral teleoperation via a communications path which has no clearly defined or predictable delay time presents difficulty in maintaining both robust stability and adequate system performance for all delay conditions. The work presented in this book results in a new teleoperator architecture which:...

Do you want to get started with using LaTeX for producing professionally designed documents and books? This beginner's guide will show you how to use the powerful LaTeX tools with the help of practical examples, taking you through the essential steps of LaTeX, from installing, formatting, and justification to page design.

Richard White, The Accidental Salesman®, shares a wealth of field-tested experience, tips, techniques and strategies to enable even the most reluctant networker to become a comfortable and confident professional. This Networking Survival Guide is for... * Entrepreneurs lacking a sales background * Consultants, Coaches and Trainers * Professionals such as Bankers, Accountants, Lawyers, Architects and Engineers * Freelancers and Career-Mi...

On June 22nd 1941 three huge German Army Groups launched a surprise attack on Soviet Russia. The most barbaric and brutal struggle in history was about to be played out to the death. History is always written by the victors, but this is the other side of the coin. Here is the German experience of the war in Russia, a powerful study of that titanic conflict as seen through the eyes of and told in the words of the men who fought and died for Hit...

Den 29. maj 2009 vedtog Folketinget en ny selskabslov. Den nye selskabslov er udtryk for en omfattende reform på det selskabsretlige område, men det lader til, at man under reformarbejdet har glemt de små og mellemstore virksomheders reguleringsmæssige behov i tilfælde af konflikter internt i selskabet.Manglende selvregulering blandt kapitalejerne i små og mellemstore virksomheder kombineret med et begrænset antal deklaratoriske beskyttelsesre...

ABOUT THE BOOK: Forged by Conviction is a never before written, chronologically accurate account of the birth and prominent rise of the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia. Meet the colorful personalities who helped to define and mobilize this great movement for God's glory. Discover how both church planting and decentralization helped to carve what would become the foundation of one of America's most modern day struggles for biblical i...